{"id":780,"date":"2015-08-22T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=780"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:42:45","slug":"dragon-quest-classic-unfinished-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Hero Quest [Classic] (unfinished poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>I was going to post another &#8216;going to Hell&#8217; poem &#8212; damn, I have a lot of them &#8212; but I decided to mix things up instead and post something entirely different.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Why are the nouns capitalized?\u00a0Who\u00a0knows, but it seems more dramatic,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t it?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Anyone notice the\u00a0structural\u00a0similarity to Longfellow&#8217;s &#8216;Hiawatha&#8217;? Anyone?\u00a0Anyone? Bueller?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And then the mighty Dragon spat<br \/>\nA Gout of Flame to sear his Foe<br \/>\nBut on and on our Hero fought<br \/>\nFull safe within his Suit of Mail<br \/>\nThe clever craft of woodland Elves<br \/>\nDesigned to turn the sharpest Blade<br \/>\nAnd save the Wearer from the Fires<br \/>\nThat of the Dragon burn within<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post another &#8216;going to Hell&#8217; poem &#8212; damn, I have a lot of them &#8212; but I decided to mix things up instead and post something entirely different. Why are the nouns capitalized?\u00a0Who\u00a0knows, but it seems more dramatic,\u00a0doesn&#8217;t it? Anyone notice the\u00a0structural\u00a0similarity to Longfellow&#8217;s &#8216;Hiawatha&#8217;? Anyone?\u00a0Anyone? Bueller? And then the mighty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hero Quest [Classic] (unfinished poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}